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Litigation

May 11, 2013

Attorney General charges JPMorgan Chase with flooding state courts with specious lawsuits

In a stinging complaint filed Thursday in state court in Los Angeles, Calif. Attorney General Kamala Harris accused the nation's largest bank of robo-signing tens of thousands of lawsuits against 100,000 credit card borrowers in the state.


By Chase Scheinbaum


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris took aim at the nation's largest bank Thursday, slapping JPMorgan Chase & Co. with allegations that it flooded state courts with illegitimate lawsuits against credit card borrowers.


Harris' suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims the bank "robo-signed" in a fraudulent and illegal effort to collect de...

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